Yearly Archives: 2006

Define: irony

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When you search define: irony in google you should get this screenshot:

In Pop-up Potpourri you can find a great collection of stupid screenshots. It’s hard to pick one as the best, but I’d vote for the weather forecast and the last one

I don’t really need one of these transistors that Scott S. is buying, but I’m really tempted to get one. It’d be awesome: a forty-ton object that takes up no space and costs only $1.80! Anyone got a free shipping coupon code I can use?

Also, today on The Daily WTF: flyer-to-print-to-photo-to-print-to-scan-to-web

Innocence

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I think this kids’ letters to god are just lovely

Dear God,
Please put another holiday between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now.
Ginny

Dear God,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.
Larry

Dear God,
I think the stapler is one of your greatest invention
Ruth M.

The rest at darkMonkey.org

Innovative technologies create new words

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To google became a verb even when Google discourages it:

Google has attempted to discourage use of the word as a verb, fearing the dilution and potential loss of its trademark, like Yo-Yo, Xerox and escalator (see genericized trademark).

I know you should protect your trademark but when all the people start using your name as a common word is a sign of success.

Anyway, the point here was discovering the new word of today:

wii-kend:

1. A weekend devoted exclusively towards playing a Nintendo Wii.

2. the weekend of November 19, 2006, the Nintendo Wii console’s launch date

Found via word of the day

More on wii-kend

Do it!

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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you’ve been holding back from… and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

Seth Godin

JPG Magazine

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Yesterday I discovered JPG Magazine, a photography magazine with an interesting business model. Users submit their photos, users vote for photos, JPG publish user photos. If your photo gets published you get a 1-year subscription and $100.

Also you can get it in PDF for free. I’ll wait before subscribing since the price for US ($24.99/year) seems to be ok, but outside US it’s $48.99, which I find a bit expensive for 6 issues.

Clave de Sol

Snow after work

I have only two pictures by now, but you can check it in my profile

Very Important Programmer needed

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Nicest job position in a while via the Vitamin Job Board

About You:

a) You started programming young (can you beat the company record of 6 years old!)

b) You are a programmer because you love programming

c) You have turned down promotion to management because of b)

d) You get a kick when you find an elegant and efficient solution to a problem

e) You recognize that thinking before coding is crucial

g) You want to work for a company where your voice is heard, your suggestions get implemented and your code makes a difference to the bottom line

They missed the (f) point but it’s yet a great Job announce. If it only described more about the job itselft, it would rock.

More details at: Very Important Programmer

PS: just in case you’re wondering, I’m not looking for a job. I’m just subscribed to the Vitamin feed, which includes job postings weekly